The Ishtar-gate of Babylon in Pergamon Museum. The cultic procession went through this gate.
Babylonian Rosh Hashanah
Battle, creation, enthronement, and justice
Published: September 14, 2014
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Last Updated: September 7, 2026
For translations, descriptions and discussion of the New Year’s festival in Babylon (and in other cities), see A. Sachs, in: J.B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament2, Princeton 1955, pp. 331-334; M.E. Cohen, The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East, Bethesda MD 1993, pp. 400-453; M.J.H. Linssen, The Cults of Uruk and Babylon: The Temple Ritual Texts as Evidence for Hellenistic Cult Practice (Cuneiform Monographs 25), Leiden 2004, pp. 61-91, 184-237.
See M.J.H. Linssen, The Cults of Uruk and Babylon: The Temple Ritual Texts as Evidence for Hellenistic Cult Practice (Cuneiform Monographs 25), Leiden 2004, pp. 219-220, 228.
For more on this psalm and its connection to Rosh Hashana, see Alan Cooper, “The Psalm of the Shofar: Its Use in Liturgy and its Meaning in the Bible,” TheTorah (2014).
